And Sorkin's film will all take place in "real time."

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, charged with turning Walter Isaacson's eponymous biography of Steve Jobs into a major motion picture for Sony, says the movie will consist solely of three scenes. Sorkin's plans for the movie were revealed during an interview at Newsweek's and The Daily Beast's Hero Summit in Washington, DC on Thursday.

"This entire movie is going to be three scenes, and three scenes only, that all take place in real time," Sorkin explained, noting that each fictionalized scene would be about 30 minutes for both the audience and the characters in the film. "Each of these scenes is going to take place backstage before a product launch—the first one being the Mac, the second one being NeXT, and the third one being the iPod."

Sorkin said he hopes to have "earned" the right to end the film with the famous voiceover from Apple's "Think Different" ads:

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Sorkin noted that he spoke to a number of people who worked with Jobs over the years at Apple, NeXT, and Pixar, in order to build an accurate depiction of Jobs on screen. "I've been able to talk to all these people who revere him, even though he made all of them cry at one point or another. But he made all of them better at what they were doing." That includes Jobs' long-time friend and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who is also serving as a technical advisor for the film.

Sorkin noted that Jobs' reputation for being petulant and ill-mannered at times made him more interesting as a person to write about.

"There's no point in writing about someone unless they are flawed," Sorkin said. "Perfect people—which probably don't exist—aren't interesting. 'Typical' people also don't exist—there's no such thing as a 'typical' person. Steve Jobs was atypical, a genius, and extremely difficult."

You can view the entire Hero Summit interview below (Flash-only). Sorkin's comments on Jobs start at around the 22:30 mark.

Aaaaaaand once again Sorkin does one of those long shot, people dipping in and out of frame walk-and-talks....hope they find a way to arrange for these events to have happened somewhere with a lot of interconnected hallways.

Am I the only one around here who thinks that making a movie about Jobs now, and stopping the story 11 years ago, is a waste of time? How can anyone act like the introduction of the iPhone, and then the iPad, weren't important to Jobs? Yes, the Mac was important to him. Yes, NeXT was important to him. Absolutely, the iPod was important to him......but come on. Also, what about Pixar? TOY STORY, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. His involvement with Disney. His personal life?

Here's hoping all of the anti-Kutcher trolls have to eat their words when that movie ends up being better than this.

Maybe the movie Sorkin describes will be interesting. But he is not describing a movie based on the biography by Isaacson, which is what Sony hired him to write. Why would Sony allow him to go this far afield considering the considerable investment they made in acquiring the rights to this book? This story does not compute.

Maybe the movie Sorkin describes will be interesting. But he is not describing a movie based on the biography by Isaacson, which is what Sony hired him to write. Why would Sony allow him to go this far afield considering the considerable investment they made in acquiring the rights to this book? This story does not compute.

It's not really that unusual for the rights purchased and the movie to end up being very different. Part of what Sony purchased was no other studio getting to try their version.

This seems like a very interesting take on the structure of a film. Not many films have tried and succeeded using as few scenes as possible. Really the only one I can think of at the moment is "My Dinner With Andre," which I enjoyed.

On top of that, I haven't disliked anything Sorkin, so it will be interesting to see how this film develops.

A biopic penned by Sorkin based on this specific biography seems pointless. As much as he dramatizes reality; it's hardly worth the effort saying it's based on true events. Sorkin is a good dramatist, but wouldn't people be more interested in Jobs' the man rather than 3 vignettes over learning who Jobs the technologist is after being Sorkinized?

Sure, dramatize, but I imagine there were significant events in Jobs' personal life that would make for great scenes.

If he wanted to do My Dinner With Steven, he shouldn't have bothered doing this movie based on the biography.

This sounds like an interesting way to frame the movie. You have to figure the moments before a launch were some of the most intense of Steve's life. It's curious to not include the iPhone launch, since that's probably Steve's greatest performance of all time, but perhaps Sorkin felt like there was less dramatic potential there. He's a great screenwriter, and I'm eager to see how the film turns out, even with Ashton Kutcher.

I love this idea. Those worrying that it will have too narrow a focus should relax: I'm sure Jobs will get into conversations with people there and via phone, bitch out employees, and have reporters running around--and all those are narrative techniques Sorkin can use to introduce any part of Jobs's life that he wants to include.

Mostly I think the common biopic problem is a sagging, structureless movie. And this sure does away with that!

Sounds awesome. This is Sorkin we are talking about, being restricted to three 30 minute scenes is not exactly outside his experience or capability. I actually can't think of a better writer for Jobs dialog.

When the iPhone launched, the iPod was already a massive success. Everyone and their dog was clamoring for an iPod that could make phone calls. The question was all about how well it could be implemented, not the idea itself. Even a mediocre iPhone would have made money for Apple.

The iPod was much bigger gamble for Apple as a company, and for Jobs personally

I completely agree, these three scenes are probably the most intense times for Jobs. I'm especially interested in t NeXT days because I think those were really the most daring moves he made, and the ones that any Unix geek can probably most appreciate. There was considerable fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the Mac, NeXT, and the iPod. By the time of the iPhone the naysayers were in the minority rather than the majority, as it's hard to argue with the market dominance of the iPod.

A biopic penned by Sorkin based on this specific biography seems pointless. As much as he dramatizes reality; it's hardly worth the effort saying it's based on true events. Sorkin is a good dramatist, but wouldn't people be more interested in Jobs' the man rather than 3 vignettes over learning who Jobs the technologist is after being Sorkinized?.